What do you use Redis for?

I was writing a blog post about Redis.

I want my friends and new devs to know:

• How they can reduce their database costs* by adding Redis to the tech stack.
• How they can use Redis to save development time.

*These costs include both Cash and Performance.

To give them ideas on how they can use Redis, I could only come up with the following-

• Cache - I use Redis as a Full Page Cache.
• Persistent Database - For a small project, it is the only database I use. Free 30mb Redis enterprise is helpful.
• Counter - Leader Boards, Simple analytics
• Session Storage - php $_SESSION, express session
• Message Broker: Real-Time stuff. Like sending not so important notification.
• Queue - Run a CRON job and process queue at regular interval.

Can you guys share what you use it for?

It can be anything, including the ones I mentioned above.
Also, share your experience while using it 🙏🏽.

P.S.- Crazy Ideas are 🎁 for 🧠

Comments

[Cesar Aguirre]

Mainly for caching purposes. I have used Redis to cache the ouput from services retrieving a document object from a NoSql document store

[Rohit Das]

Thanks, Cesar!
Was it easy to implement in your favourite programming language?
How long do you store the object in the cache?

[Cesar Aguirre]

Yes, it is easy to implement caching with ASP.NET Core these days. I made a post about it :)

Last time I use caching with Redis was to store configuration objects, we kept them for an hour

How to add an in-memory and a Redis-powered cache layer with ASP.NET Core 3

Cesar Aguirre ・ Jul 13 ・ 6 min read

#tutorial #beginners #csharp #dotnet

[rhymes]

Forem uses Redis for server side caching, storing sessions and as the backend for the queueing system 😀